People Business Partner

3 months ago

London, United Kingdom VML Full time

**Who We Are**:
At VML, we are a beacon of innovation and growth in an ever-evolving world. Our heritage is built upon a century of combined expertise, where creativity meets technology, and diverse perspectives ignite inspiration. With the merger of VMLY&R and Wunderman Thompson, we have forged a new path as a growth partner that is part creative agency, part consultancy, and part technology powerhouse.

Our global family now encompasses over 30,000 employees across 150+ offices in 64 markets, each contributing to a culture that values connection, belonging, and the power of differences. Our expertise spans the entire customer journey, offering deep insights in communications, commerce, consultancy, CRM, CX, data, production, and technology. We deliver end-to-end solutions that result in revolutionary work.

**People Business Partner needed to join our Satalia division on a permanent basis. This role is largely remote based with requirement to travel to Watford and/or London as required.**:
**What you'll be doing**:

- Contribute to and drive the overall People team strategy as a strategic partner to your assigned business area(s).
- Be a sparring partner for the senior leader of your business areas to build relationships and challenge the status quo with a seat at the leadership table
- Develop a deep knowledge of business strategies, priorities and challenges to raise creditability of the People team and ensure that your business areas are right sized and structured to deliver
- Coach management team to improve leadership capability and drive improved employee engagement
- Use People metrics to support managers in defining, developing, and executing people plans, in collaboration with the Talent, L&D and Reward teams
- Ownership of the Performance enablement process in your area to influence business managers on decision making on people, promotions, and recruitment
- Lead on complex employee relations matters as necessary (including Redundancy and TUPE) including working with and mentoring the People officer on more simplistic cases
- Communicate key messages through Business area, attending team meetings and being a visible partner
- Lead or support UK CPO to deliver on People team and wider EMEA or Business change projects. Current projects include Career Pathways and Competency frameworks, Leadership Development, IE&D strategy and Wellbeing initiatives.

**What we want from you**:

- Strong experience as generalist HR Business Partner, ideally within a similar industry
- Comfortable working in a fast paced and constantly changing environment, working at an operational and strategic level.
- Skilled and experienced in organisational development and change, performance management, reward and learning and development.
- CIPD qualified and a passion for continuous professional development
- Organized with the ability to manage and prioritize a challenging and busy workload
- Good knowledge of employment law and commercial in your approach
- Excellent people management and influential skills
- Analytical and goal oriented
- Demonstrable experience with HR metrics
- Self-starter with a drive to make things happen at pace
- Strong emotional intelligence, listening, influencing and coaching skills
- A high level of resilience

**If you know some of this, even better**:

- Prior experience working in a technology agency/consultancy

**What we can offer you**:
Alongside the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting brands around the world, we'll also prioritise your career development and help you grow your skills. We'll empower you to make a difference, allow you to be yourself, and respect who you are.

**AT VML Enterprise Solutions**:
Our commerce and technology division houses strategic consultants, creative and technical architects and skilled developers and operators that together help some of the world's leading organisations to deliver outstanding digital experiences across all major routes to market worldwide: marketplaces, online retailers, D2C, B2B and social platforms. With over 4,200 experts in 55 operational centres across 34 countries, our capabilities span the entire buying journey from customer acquisition, through engagement, to conversion and loyalty, driving multi-channel growth for world-leading brands.

We work with some of the most exciting brands such as The Coca-Cola Company, EY, Bosch, Unilever, Ford, DFS, Mercedes-Benz, Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Sainsbury's, Selfridges, Shell and Tiffany & Co. We've built over 500 platforms for brands and retailers and generate in excess of $29bn annually for our clients and work with over 50 strategic partners including Adobe, SAP, Salesforce, HCL, Shopify, Sitecore, BigCommerce, commerce tools and Acquia. Our reputation is based on our people, and we believe we have some of the best in the business.

As our business grows internationally, we're looking for new people to join us on our journey to inspire and take a key role in shaping som

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